Richie Rich comic book covers often showed what the creators imagined what the greatest wealth in the world could buy. In 1976 that included watches that could play music or make telephone calls. 42 years later, in some ways, I am living like the imagined richest kid in the world could.

The new business models enabled by the Internet is highly effective platforms designed to manipulate us. We offer ourselves up for manipulation every day. Even if you think you are immune, the people around you are also being exposed to these manipulation platforms, and they have a very real vote in your life.

Potato vine flower under the microscope.

Looking at my network traffic reminds me that almost all North-South traffic is encrypted these days.

Activating IPv6 on my eero Wi-Fi network.

Sometimes a walk across a college campus can be a great productivity enhancer.

Look in a mirror. There is a good chance you are looking at more than one “person”. It turns out that human chimeras exist. In fact, there are many different degrees of chimerism, and it is far more common than you might imagine. You may very well be one yourself.

Photo stacking addresses the challenge of very limited depth of field in microscope photography. This post shows the result of my first experiment using this technique.

Ciliates are protozoans that, despite being single cell critters, are surprisingly fast, large, and complex.

Early experiments with microscope lighting - looking at coffee grounds lit from above and above.